1848 in Germany

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I. ; Maximilian II
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

  Events

• 17 March - Poem In Kümmernis und Dunkelheit was written in London by German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath.
• February - Publication of The Communist Manifesto
• April - Hecker uprising in Baden
• 9 April - Battle of Bov
• 9 April - Foundation of Münchner Neueste Nachrichten
• 20 April - Battle on the Scheideck
• 23 April - Battle of Schleswig
• 23 April - Battle of Mysunde
• 24 April - Skirmish of Oversø
• 1 May - 1848 German federal election
• 7 May - Start of magazine Kladderadatsch
• 11 May - Baden mutiny
• 18 May - 379 deputies assembled in the Kaisersaal in Frankfurt am Main walked solemnly to the Paulskirche to hold the first session of the German national assembly, under its chairman Friedrich Lang. Heinrich von Gagern became first elected president of Frankfurt Parliament.
• 1 June - Foundation of Neue Rheinische Zeitung
• 24 June - President of the National Assembly Heinrich von Gagern argued for a regency and provisional central government to carry out parliamentary decisions.
• 25 June - Forming of Casino faction in Frankfurt Parliament: Factions in the Frankfurt Assembly
• 21 September - Struve Putsch: Proclamation of the German Republic by Gustav Struve in Lörrach
• 21 October - Würzburg Bishops' Conference
• 5 December - Promulgated of Constitution of Prussia

  Undated

• Forty-Eighters
• German revolutions of 1848–1849
• Baden Revolution
• Foundation of Piusverein
• Painting Gnome Watching Railway Train by Carl Spitzweg
• Painting Germania
• Opera Regina by German composer Albert Lortzing

  Births

• 10 January - Paul Tschackert, German Protestant theologian
• 12 January - Franz von Soxhlet, German agricultural chemist
• 2 February - Ludwig Dill, German painter
• 4 February - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, German nobkeman and politician
• 5 February - Louis Schmeisser, German weapon technical designer
• 6 February - Wilhelm von Finck, German banker and entrepreneur
• 7 February - Adolf Weil, German physcian
• 13 February – Hermann von Eichhorn, German field marshal
• 25 February – King William II of Württemberg
• 3 March - Gustav Fischer, German explorer
• 27 April – King Otto of Bavaria
• 23 May - Otto Lilienthal, German engineer, aviation pioneer
• 23 May - Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, German general
• 3 July – Lothar von Trotha, German military commander
• 22 July - Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• 7 September - Berta Behrens, German novelist
• 8 September – Viktor Meyer, German chemist
• 18 September - Maximilian Nitze, German urologist
• 20 September – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur, inventor of the hole punch and ringbinder
• 8 November – Gottlob Frege, German logician
• 23 November - Habbo Gerhard Lolling, German archaeologist
• 27 November – Maximilian von Prittwitz, German general
• 22 December - Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist

  Deaths

• 9 January – Caroline Herschel, German astronomer
• 22 January - Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider, German Protestant scholar and theologian
• 15 February – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal
• 22 February – Wilhelmine Reichard, first German woman balloonist
• 24 May – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer
• 10 July – Karoline Jagemann, German actress
• 18 September - Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald, Prussian general
• 9 November – Robert Blum, German politician
• 28 November - Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, German noblewoman
• 16 December - Bruno Erhard Abegg, German politician and statesman
• 31 December - Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German philogist
• undated - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer in Australia